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Friday, April 27, 2012

Social Security Document Submission: 1993

December 6, 1993

3801 Connecticut Avenue, NW

Apt. 136

Washington, DC 20008

U.S. Social Security Administration

Office of Disability and International

Operations

1500 Woodlawn Drive

Baltimore, MD 21241

RE: Disability Claim No. xxx-xx-xxxx

Dear Sir:

Enclosed with respect to the
above-referenced disability claim is a copy of a collection of
letters I have submitted to my current treating psychiatrist, Dr.
Suzanne M. Pitts, during the period of my therapy with her. The
letters cover a wide range of topics including interpretations of my
dreams, thoughts about theoretical issues, and reflections on my
mental state. It is hoped that review of this material by Social
Security Administration mental health specialists will provide the
agency with further insight regarding the nature of my disability,
which, judging by the letters, is extraordinarily severe.

I feel that I have made no progress
whatsoever in my therapy with Dr. Pitts. It might be useful if
Social Security Administration specialists were to contact Dr. Pitts
and offer her guidance on how best to proceed in my case. I have
requested of two staff psychiatrists at George Washington University
Medical Center Department of Psychiatry, Dr. Daniel Tsao and Dr.
Caroline Wohlgemuth, that I be transferred to another psychiatrist.
My request was denied because, as stated by Drs. Tsao and Wohlgemuth,
a transfer is not consistent with the Psychiatry Department's policy.
A conference between a Social Security Administration psychiatrist
and Dr. Jerry M. Wiener, Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry,
might prove useful.

I would like to take this opportunity
to advise the Social Security Administration that I continue to hold
certain beliefs that might be termed paranoid.

I continue to believe that:

(a) Managers of my former employer, the
law firm of Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld, continue to
communicate regularly with psychiatrists at the George Washington
University Department of Psychiatry regarding the status of my
therapy. George Washington University Department of Psychiatry
denies that such communications are taking place.

(b) Managers of my former employer
continue to have regular and frequent communications with my sister,
Mrs. Estelle Jacobson, to discuss the status of my therapy and other
issues pertinent to my case. My sister denies ever having
communicated with any Akin Gump managers.

(d) Librarians at the Cleveland Park
Library branch of the D.C. Public Library System, which I visit
daily, seem to be aware of the status of my therapy and other issues
pertinent to my case on a day-to-day basis. I assume that an Akin
Gump employee(s) communicates with one or more librarians at the
Cleveland Park Branch daily. I have no objective basis to conclude
that any library employees know my identity; however, I believe that
I am hypersensitive to verbal and nonverbal clues, including double
entendres voice inflection and intonation, and subtle mood shifts,
which for me, have communicative value.

You may contact me at (202) 362-7064 or
leave a message at (202) 363-3800.